Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health

Re:Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health by ipnon on Saturday August 07, 2021 @10:57AM (#28099030)

Given a human body B, how many permutations of a position P can you move the body into, given the time constraint of a day D?

I had back pain from "programmer's hunch." I resisted doing yoga because I thought I was too cool to do "hippie stuff," but I started doing yoga and my back pain went away. Is my spirit cleansed from opening my spinal chakra? No. My yoga routine includes many body positions I never enter during a typical day, most importantly lordosis.[0] The first time I did the lordosis pose my back crackled and popped. The second time not so much. These days I gracefully enter the pose with ease, and my back pain has magically disappeared.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordosis

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Re:Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health by treeman79 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:00AM (#28099047)

You may enjoy Bob and Brad videos for great stretches. They are physical therapist.

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Re:Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health by jamil7 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:16AM (#28099172)

Yoga and just plain pushups also helped my back a lot.

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Re:Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health by cscurmudgeon on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:16AM (#28099170)

> Is my spirit cleansed from opening my spinal chakra?

Btw, there is no notion of a spirit cleansing in yoga. This is all hippie marketing.

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Re:Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health by thombee on Saturday August 07, 2021 @05:13PM (#28101878)

Mate yoga is the original spiritual practice from India. It was created as a tool to explore and deepen spirituality. Reducing it to "just some stretches" is a western invention. Which is fine! But chakras and all that "hippie woo" is much closer to "true yoga" than the sanitised version you're talking about.

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Re:Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health by ipnon on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:20AM (#28099217)

Sorry, I mean no offense. Where I live I have met many yoga practitioners who have peculiar ideas about physiology. They do not represent yoga as a whole, or its traditional practice.

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Re:Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health by elliottkember on Saturday August 07, 2021 @12:17PM (#28099720)

I’m very familiar with this yogababble. It’s a real shame, because it drives away the people who could benefit most from the practice. I would really enjoy a more mechanical yoga practice without it.

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Re:Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health by hereforphone on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:11AM (#28099132)

Or just stretch and lift. Stretching and lifting did more for me than yoga did.

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Re:Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health by seaghost on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:20AM (#28099213)

You pain went away because yoga relieved you from the stress.

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Re:Squatting or Kneeling May Be Beneficial for Health by ipnon on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:03PM (#28150781)

I wish the stress was relieved, alas I merely started yoga.

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